AAA Annual Meeting Contingent Faculty Travel Awards
Forecasted
AAA Annual Meeting Contingent Faculty Travel Awards support underemployed scholars’ travel to present papers or posters at the annual meeting and raise awareness of their professional challenges.
Funder: Society for Medical Anthropology
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Two $500 awards or one $1,000 award annually
Summary: Travel support for underemployed, non-student SMA members presenting accepted papers or posters at the AAA annual meeting.
Key Information: Applicants must hold a non-tenure-track or temporary position, or be unintentionally unemployed.
Description
The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), offers annual travel awards to help underemployed members present papers or posters at the AAA annual meeting. The program supports one or two non-student members whose abstracts have been accepted, helping address difficulties in securing conference travel funding while raising awareness of the professional challenges faced by underemployed peers.
This is conference travel support rather than funding for a separate research project. Selection centers on the significance, innovation, and clarity of the presentation abstract. When abstracts are judged equally strong on those criteria, the committee considers applicants’ employment circumstances and professional challenges described in their personal statements.
